Re: DB Message Full With Low # Messages
If you never quit PM all your trashed email will accumulate in the Trash of PM - it has been times that when I finally quit PM I had more than 4,000 messages accumulated and that will take a while to delete. If you accumulated 67,000 email, you haven't quit PM in a long time. You can keep the Trash slim and trim without quitting the application by going from time to time under the menubar, powermail, empty trash. You definitely want to compact your database. BUT, as you do seem to have some anormality, I would first make a backup of your message and address book database. The address database is a separate file., so no, that will not make your database bigger What I would do in your case is in the finder locate the 2 files, select them both and from the Finder action menu choose 'make archive'. The generated file which will be called 'archive' I'd add the date to something like '20050524-archive'. Then I would launch PM with the combo keys held down - I forget always what they are and have to fiddle around myself, I guess it's something like option+command while launching PM. In the dialogbox I would choose first just compact. That might take a while. Then I'd quit and do the same startup procedure and now I'd select verify database, reindex etc all nice maintenance options. Usually I'd do it all in one run through, but as you seem to have some other, unhandled problems, I'd go with that, even though I do not know if this improves anything. In the finder you should see the size of the message database considerably shrunk. When I do cleaup like that, i.e. I archive my PM data to eMA, my database easily shrinks from 200 mb down to 4 or 5 mb. ---marlyse former message(s) quotes: - Hello This is the strange thing happened to me yesterday: PowerMail advised me that it can't handle a message database bigger than 2GB, so I selected some 40/50 messages stored in a folder since about a year ago, moved them to trash, and when told PM to delete the trash folder; an alert window then reported I was going to delete something like 67.000 messages. I really had something like 2.000 messages distributed in all folders. Probably, this has something to do with the fact I can't still see messages in the trash folder. Is it possible that some kind of invisible files are piled up somewhere in PM? How can the actual size of my message DB's be 1.91 GB with not more than 2000 visible messages? In any case, I'll try to proceed as if the only problem was the DB's size and would like to ask you: 1. Is the message database increased by the Address Book as well? 2. If compacting the Database, can I still read single messages? 3. What would you prefer between compacting the DB and exporting the messages? Thank you in advance Giovanni Andreani ---marlyse --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- my life: http://www.marlyse.com my view: http://www.marlyse.com/myview my work: http://www.mStudios.com ---
Re: DB Message Full With Low # Messages
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Tue, 24 May 2005 10:59:52 +0200 In any case, I'll try to proceed as if the only problem was the DB's size and would like to ask you: 1. Is the message database increased by the Address Book as well? 2. If compacting the Database, can I still read single messages? 3. What would you prefer between compacting the DB and exporting the messages? Having been a PowerMail 5.x user (now at 5.2) for quite some time I can say that compacting a database has always worked reliably for me, and it doesn't have any disadvantages (it just reorganizes the databse to consume less space) - no message are lost or anything like that. Nevertheless - as your database may have some weird problem I'd suggest to do the follwing: - make a backup copy of the folder with message database and everything else (even though PowerMail when compacting will leave a copy of the original message database behind, called Message Databse.old - to be deleted manually after you have made sure compacting worked OK) - compact the database Then figure out where that leaves you. Even with 67.000 mails you should not even get near 2.0 GB (I have about 200.000 mails, and I am at around 1.3 GB after compacting). Address book should only affect your address database, not your message database. HTH. Olaf
DB Message Full With Low # Messages
Hello This is the strange thing happened to me yesterday: PowerMail advised me that it can't handle a message database bigger than 2GB, so I selected some 40/50 messages stored in a folder since about a year ago, moved them to trash, and when told PM to delete the trash folder; an alert window then reported I was going to delete something like 67.000 messages. I really had something like 2.000 messages distributed in all folders. Probably, this has something to do with the fact I can't still see messages in the trash folder. Is it possible that some kind of invisible files are piled up somewhere in PM? How can the actual size of my message DB's be 1.91 GB with not more than 2000 visible messages? In any case, I'll try to proceed as if the only problem was the DB's size and would like to ask you: 1. Is the message database increased by the Address Book as well? 2. If compacting the Database, can I still read single messages? 3. What would you prefer between compacting the DB and exporting the messages? Thank you in advance Giovanni Andreani
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I want to bring my mail settings and databases from work to my home computer. Will the folder: home/Library/Mail/PowerMail Files and the files: home/Library/Preferences/com.ctmdev.PowerMail.plist home/ Library/Preferences/PowerMail Prefs do it? Tony -- Anthony R. Sanna SACO Foods, Inc. 1-800-373-7226 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Display Question for 5.2 users
Bob Moody / 2005/05/23 / 01:20 PM wrote: try trashing the .plist file for PM. Also rebuild permissions, reprebind the system, run the cron scripts, and maybe even run diskwarrior (but get the new version first if you're using tiger.) Wait, wait, wait! PM's pref is not .plist, There is no such thing as rebuild permissions, Prebind has been abandoned since OSX10.3.4 (I think), and certainly Tiger doesn't know what the heck it is, Running cron only cleans log files (along with NetInfo stuff but you don't need to know), DW is always a good idea :-) By the way, PM is not really a refresh-clean app. It has been this way since I got PM. Jerome, any chance of QE implementation in a future? -- - Hiro [PROTECTED] [PROTECTED] [PROTECTED]
Re: Display Question for 5.2 users
Bob Moody wrote at 1:20 pm (-0400) on Mon 23 May 2005: try trashing the .plist file for PM. Also rebuild permissions, reprebind the system, run the cron scripts, and maybe even run diskwarrior (but get the new version first if you're using tiger.) Holy crap Bob, calm down! Do you do this every time a mild anomaly comes up in software? Do you rush into the emergency room seeking a full physical when you suspect a hangnail? :) In answer to your question Tim... I see what you describe from time to time, though I can't remember when recently last I've seen it. -b -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
Re: Display Question for 5.2 users
== Tim Lapin, thank you for your message. = ***REPLYING TO YOUR MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW. REPLY IS ABOVE YOUR MESSAGE*** REPLY: try trashing the .plist file for PM. Also rebuild permissions, reprebind the system, run the cron scripts, and maybe even run diskwarrior (but get the new version first if you're using tiger.) Mon, 23 May 2005 12:17:50 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Hello all, As you can see by my sig, I am using PM 5.1. I am still experiencing an intermittent problem that I've seen since at least 4.x if not 3.x. When moving a bunch of messages to the trash, the folder portion of the main browser window gets overwritten with the names of the moved messages. It's only a display problem; when I close and then re-open the browser window, all is as it should be. As I've stated, it does not happen all the time and I can't pin down exactly under what conditions it does happen: a) number of messages moved b) total load on my system c) type/content of most recent message viewed d) phase of the moon e) whether I've eaten pizza that night,... Does anyone else still experience this? Is it fixed on 5.2? Is there something else I can do? -- Tim Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] G4/AGP/400OS 10.3.9PowerMail 5.1 640 MB RAM 40+40 GB HDs --- Bob Moody, fundraising consultant Owner, Moody Associates Quality Fundraising Products Serving schools, sports teams, daycares, church groups, scouts, and other community groups. *1986-2005 19 years of excellence! *Our mission is to make it easy for you to reach your fundraising goals...over and over...year after year. *Our main product is your profit! office: 540-885-3439 or 800-326-9192 (8-4 M-F) cell: 540-294-9791 toll-free to cell: 866-294-9791 www.fundraisingcentral.net www.bobmoody.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail: 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401-8346 fax 540-885-6670 or toll free 877-936-9192 The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Is there a Signature file?
I was wondering if there is an actual signature file in Powermail? I would like to clear my signature entries out but would also like to save them to a text file if possible for future use.
